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IDC report: Sliced bread’s got nothing on Virtual Connect Flex-10.
HP’s new Virtual Connect Flex-10 Ethernet module is the industry’s first interconnect that flexibly allocates the bandwidth of a 10 Gb Ethernet network port across four NIC connections. This eliminates the need for additional costly NICs, switches and cables while concurrently increasing bandwidth flexibility. As a result, customers deploying virtual machines and utilizing Virtual Connect Flex-10 can realize savings of up to 66 percent in network equipment costs, save 240 watts of power per HP BladeSystem enclosure, or 3,150 kilowatt hours per year, and increase aggregate network bandwidth threefold or more compared to existing networking technologies.
Further simplifying storage and virtualization deployments for Fibre Channel storage customers, HP has enhanced its Virtual Connect 4Gb Fibre Channel module to allocate storage resources on a per virtual machine basis. Customers can assign up to 128 separate storage area network (SAN) volumes per server blade for greater performance and flexibility.
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| What’s the industry saying about Virtual Connect? |
“Together, the VMware platform and HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 technology can enhance the flexibility of business-critical applications and reduce the total cost of application delivery for customers. HP Virtual Connect Flex-10 helps companies fine-tune network bandwidth and enhance connectivity in virtualized environments while VMware provides a secure virtualization platform with industry-leading manageability and resiliency. This combination has all the ingredients necessary for a cost-effective, highly available application environment that provides on-demand flexibility for enterprise datacenters and cloud computing.
- Ben Matheson, senior director, marketing, VMware.
”We’re not the only one sold on Virtual Connect with Flex-10 technology. Check out what these industry leaders are saying. Read more...
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| Find out just how much you can save by switching to Virtual Connect Flex-10. |
Network consolidation and converged networks are hot topics. Find out how Virtual Connect Flex-10 reduces NICs, switches and cables by up to 75 percent. |
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